A Courageous Heart

Today, we hear the frontline experience of growing up in Christianity and the many unique roles and paths the lord takes his men and women of God on. In this Journey, Stan Bradburn shares with us his many road trips, flights and seasons of travel and travel partners he has ministered with as a developing young man in music. His starting point happens over the phone when he hears he can sing as a f...

Today, Pastor Howard Jolly shares an update with us about the detailed methods of how his Music Ministry and the telling of stories play an integral part in healing. He addresses the '60s Scoop residential School Experience and how he deals with Trauma in his work. He has developed sensitivity and insight into hearts and lives. He is drawn to reconciliation. He shares the theme and what it mea...

Howard Jolly, the executive director of Native Alliance Ministries and lead singer for the Rising Above Band. He shares his motivation for his leadership work to help people find the start to a lifetime of healing. This path of healing is truly a work motivated from a personal place. It expanded into amazing conferences that brought together stories and survivors. This became a safe place of heali...

Lindsey Stillwell shares her life-changing transition from darkness to light as a birthing place. 4 beautiful children were blessed to her as were a chance to rely on Jesus as a born-again believer in Christ to learn to parent. She shares her incredible work on herself, and her re-parenting and healing of her past through parenting with God by her side in all things. Her story of success is only a...

Lindsey Stillwell carries us into her experience and the many ways she tried to fill that empty void. She fearlessly discusses addiction. The roots of her hurt seemed to set up her life and primed her to find and connect with a mood-altering substance to cover and shift her pain. As she was highly motivated and driven it pushed her further into a mindset of denial, controlling behaviors, and tryin...

Lindsey Stillwell shares with us who she was in the world before she met Jesus. Lindsey shares her childhood experience, her upbringing, and the path I've expectations that drove her to a place of exhaustion and burnout as a young athlete and student. Lindsey describes her identity crisis and not knowing Jesus and the darkness that journey carried. Lindsey talks about the void in her soul and alwa...

Marianne Curtis shares her healing journey as more than her writing career, and the deeper truths in her life surface as she seeks out a true and powerful relationship with her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This unique walk and journey of flagging, obedience, and worship has led her to amazing connections and divine appointments. She shares this with us to help us understand what a deeper relatio...

Marianne Curtis a writer, author, and storyteller shares her incredible journey of survival in Manitoba’s Foster system and her gifted heart and soul that can process her trauma and keep her conscientious and connected to her truth so that she can one day tell her story. Marianne describes the events in her life that inspired a series of books written as a medium for her truth and her voice. It ta...

Cynthia Broadfoot shares her heart and the love she had as a child for the things of God. Cynthia is a member of the Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. Her mother is an honored minister of the United Church of Canada. Cynthia shares in her story the impacts in her life between religious conflict, her own personal search for identity, and life's unexpected consequences I've choices she...

Cynthia Broadfoot shares her heart and the love she had as a child for the things of God. Cynthia is a member of the Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. Her mother is an honored minister of the United Church of Canada. Cynthia shares in her story the impacts in her life between religious conflict, her own personal search for identity, and life's unexpected consequences I've choices she...

Joanne Kitchenese shares what God has done in her life since overcoming great obstacles and healing from loss, abuse, and abandonment in her young life. As a now single mother of 2 beautiful children, Joanne shares with us what God has done for her in her life to strengthen her and show her his incredible love for her and her family. Joanne shares her goals and dreams along with the hope she has f...

Joanne Kitchenese Joanne shares with us God's divine intervention in her life at a time when she needed her family the most due to the frustration and hopelessness of their own experience. Joanne found herself in the care of her older brother and on her own in a small town. Her experience reaching out to various adults in times of trouble had often seemed fruitless, so she quietly slipped into obs...

Joanne Kitchenese shares her story as a young woman from Ontario and what it was like growing up in a home impacted by alcohol. Joanne shares with us the good moments and the bad and highlights poignant times of joy, abandonment, fear, and the love that she had for her father. This story is not unlike many across this country of Canada where Indigenous children live out their lives amid poverty, a...

Kathleen Strongwind shares with us She end by sharing a particularly poignant moment in her journey and her search to reconnect with her own family. This gives us greater insight into where her passion for advocating and sharing the stories families who have experienced the 60’s scoop here in Manitoba. The search to reconnect with her own family has helped her see the great need for healing and vo...

Katherine Strongwind shares with us her passion for advocating the concerns and the causes of traumas in the lives of families who have experienced the 60’s scoop here in Manitoba. She gave us her accomplished background and experience as it has set her up perfectly to be a national delegate and voice for the generation affected by the 60’s scoop. She answers the question, "Why Manitoba?" She give...

A look at the experience of ministry founder and Pastor Allan Spence, as interviewed by his wife and Co-Pastor Virginia Spence, featuring his testimony of coming to the Lord. What driving experiences led to the birth of their Ministry: The Courageous Heart Ministries Inc.? Pastor Allan also testifies of the miracle healing of his kidney, liver, and heart and what God has done since that time, over...